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Prop. J, to create an oversight mechanism for funding youth programs, explained in 60 seconds

Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere. Proposition J would create an oversight initiative to examine spending from funds for services to children and youth. Learn more in 60 seconds. Then, vote! Prop J 60 seconds explainer video. Video by Laura Wenus. Do you appreciate our election coverage?Mission Local is bringing you election stories from across San Francisco. We're asking every supervisorial candidate a weekly question in our "Meet the Candidates" series. We're publishing daily dispatches from the campaign trail following the mayoral candidates in our "See How They Run" series. We're following the money, telling you who is backing whom leading up to the November election.And we're putting it all on our one-stop shop election dashboard, where you can find everything related to local races.We can't do it […]

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S.F. youth groups want more juvenile protections from police

Youth advocates and community groups sent a joint letter to the San Francisco Police Commission on Wednesday requesting that a potential new policy on how police interact with juveniles further limit the use of handcuffs. It also asked that officers default to the least restrictive response possible when dealing with youths. At present, the draft policy gives officers discretion on whether to handcuff youths being taken to non-jail facilities. It allows youths to be handcuffed until a search can be conducted by their preferred gender of officer. Juveniles may also be handcuffed to a stationary object for a maximum of 30 minutes, with room for extensions. There is no other mention of when to use handcuffs.  The policy has long been planned in group meetings that have included police commissioners and other stakeholders, including the nine groups that signed onto today’s letter. The […]

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